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Letters'Patent No; 107,122, dated September. 6, 1870.

NIPROVBMENT IN REED-ORGAN BELLOWS-ACTION.

The Schedule referred to in these Letten Patent and making part'of the same.

To all whom L may concern.:

Be it known that I, SIMEON TAYLOR, of Brighton, in the county oi' Middlesex and Commonwealth ot' Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ol gans; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact-descriptionfof the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which represents a vertical section through the bellows, or so much thereof as is necessary to illustrate my present improvements. Y

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

The nature of' my invention relates to improvements connected with the bellows, whereby the latter can be operated with far more ease'and convenience than by the various modes in use prior to the invention of my present improvements.

1n t-he drawing- The partnnu'ked A represents the box or case in which the bellows B is arranged.

The bellows B is inverted'and suspended from the top of' the box, and is composed, in this insance, of three principal boards, C, D, and E, the-center board, D, being rigidly secured to the top of the box A, and supported at its lower end on each side by braces F, which extend down from the top oi' the box.

The board C is secured at the bottom of the ccntral board D by a flexible covering, a., and is connected at its sidesand upper end to the sides of the board 1), and to the under side of the top of the box A by a flexible leather or cloth covering, b.

The exhaust-board E, in this instance, is not as wide as the board B, and is connected at its lippe-rend to the center board D by a leather covering, c.

Its sides and lower ends are. also connected -by a leather lolding-piecqtl, to said center hoard.

The board C may be forced ont,'in theV position shown in the dlawin, r,l by any suitable spring.

It is also provided with a vent-valve, e.

The exhaust-board E is held in the position shown in dark lines in the drawing, by the compound or forked spring G, thc lower end ol' one. of the legs of which is fastened to the exlninst-bozud E, while the lower end oi' the other legis fastened to the back of the box A.

To the lower end of the exhaust-board E issecured an arm, H, which in turn is connected to the stand I upon the toot-pedal J by the curved, hinged connecting-piece K, -whereby the operator, by simply depress ing the pedal J, can throw the exhaust part E of the bellows back into the position shown in dotted lilies in the drawing, thus drawing the air into the bellows B through the holesfin the top of the box A.

It will be understood that the reed part 'of the keys are to be arranged over the top of the box A in the usual manner.

A series of holes', 1, 2, are iliade in the boards D E, and covered on their outer ends by flexible leather valves, g h.

Wlien the pedal J is depressed, and the exhaustboard E is forced back, as shown in dotted lines, valve h opens and valve q closes, thus drawing the air through holes'f into' those parts of the bellows between thel boards C and-D, and xD and E, while, when the foot-pedal is allowed to return to the posit-ion shown in full lines in the drawing, the valve g opens and allows the air `to escape through the holes 1 from between the boards D and E.

By the Use'of'the downwardly-projecting arm H, the connection can be formed with the pedal so as to clear the lower end of the bellows.

1t will be observed that, by connecting the footpedalto the bellows by nneans of the double-jointed connecting-piece K, as shown and described, less power is required to operate the bellows as the foot-pedal is depressed, since the. connections operate somewhat on the principal of the toggle-joint. Y

By the use of the stand I upon the foot-pedal for supporting the frontend of' the connecting-piece K,`

the necessary motion is obtained tothe exhaust-board ina more convenient mannenthan would be the case it' the connection was hinged directly tothe pedal itself.

Having described my improvements in organs and melodeons,

What I claim therein as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, with the exhaust-board E, ot' the bellows and the `foot-pedal J, of' a double-hinged connection-piece, K, arranged substantially as herein shown and described.

, 2. The combination, with the lower end of' the exhaust'board E, of a downwardly-proiecting arm, H, and a curved and double-hinged connection-piece, K, substantially as and lfor the purposes described.

SIMEON TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

Taos. H. DODGE, A. E. Pornos. 

